lively; vigorous; sprightly; animated; vivid
flickering; flashing on and off; glaringly (bright); painfully (bright); prickling (pain)
to glitter; to glisten; to sparkle; to twinkle; to glare; to gleam
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
one more time; once more; once again
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
to set free; to let go; to release; to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
continuous shooting (photography); consecutive shooting; rapid shooting
fee; charge; rate; material
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
to apologize; to apologise
to give a little chuckle; to let out a giggle
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
evening cicada (Tanna japonensis)
evening cicada (Tanna japonensis)
cluster of trees; grove; thicket
Meimuna opalifera (species of cicada)
to enliven; to liven up; to cause a stir in (e.g. the newspapers); to make prosperous
minority group (party); minority
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
stern; grim; rough; rugged; forbidding; overbearing
two-tone coloring; two-tone colouring
firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys)
Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
to relapse; to reassert; to review
changing clothes; change of clothes
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
unshapely; ill-formed; misshapen; awkward; clumsy
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends